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Event Ticketing Fraud Prevention That Protects Every Seat

How do you prevent payment fraud in online ticket sales? A guide to prevention, detection, and mitigation for box office managers and venue leaders.

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If you work in the live events industry, you’ll have heard the growing conversation about ticketing fraud. Maybe you’ve heard stories about high fees incurred through chargebacks, read headlines about bot attacks, or experienced fraud at your own organisation. With so much buzz about the problem, it can be hard to cut through and find a clear approach to event ticketing fraud prevention.

So how worried do you actually need to be about fraud?

Fraud can happen to anyone. But with the right event ticketing fraud prevention strategy, you can limit risk, detect issues, and resolve disputes with minimal impact on you or your team.

Work through this guide to learn what fraud looks like in your payment pathway, how to detect concerns early, and how to find the right balance of risk and friction to prevent fraud in online ticket sales without disrupting legitimate transactions.

At Spektrix, we provide ticketing and payment processing services to hundreds of arts, culture, & in-person experience organisations worldwide. By constantly monitoring transactions on behalf of our users, we’ve built a deep understanding of the challenge facing the industry – and, more importantly, how to address it.

With regular monitoring, tracking against industry benchmarks, and pragmatic decisions based on your own audience demographics, fraud needn’t cost you time or money. If you’re using Spektrix Payments, we’re already doing much of that work on your behalf.

We’re here to give you peace of mind.

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Fraud doesn't have to be a showstopper

Join leaders from Fox Tucson Theatre and Magic Mike Live as they share real-world experience of reducing fraud challenges without negatively impacting audience experience.

Expert speakers:

Patrick Kavanagh, Director, Ticketing & Box Office, Magic Mike Live
Tony Hall, Associate Director of Ticketing, Fox Tucson
Liv Nilssen, Director of Sector Strategy, Spektrix

How do you approach event ticketing fraud prevention in online sales?

Selling event tickets isn’t the same as selling t-shirts. Capacity is finite, and there’s a hard deadline to sell every seat before curtain up. While payment fraud affects almost every industry offering merchandise or services online, the unique nature of live event ticketing creates distinct challenges for box office and venue teams.

You almost certainly won’t manage to eliminate fraudulent activity entirely. But there’s a clear formula to help you reduce the risk, cost, and effort associated with chargebacks and bot attacks.

Types of Payment Fraud in Ticketing

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Ticketing Fraud Detection

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Finding Balance in Payment Fraud Risk Management

Learn how to limit fraud without blocking loyal audience members

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Spektrix Payments Fraud Protection, powered by Adyen

When you use Spektrix Payments, we do the heavy lifting for you.

Our dynamic, data-driven, and multi-layered mitigation system combines 24/7 automated monitoring with human expertise to help you find the right balance for your needs.

Tailored payment fraud risk management that weighs friction against risk tolerance.
Universal protections that automatically block highly suspicious behaviour.
A team of experts who genuinely care and are looking out on your behalf.

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Ticketing Professionals Use Spektrix To Understand Their Audiences

I had experience with card testing in a previous role but didn’t have anything as robust as Spektrix Payments to tackle those fraud attempts. Now we’re confident that Spektrix is responding to potential attacks quickly and safely on our behalf, we’ve avoided chargebacks, and we haven’t incurred any significant costs as a result.

Luke Mallinson
Chief Financial Officer
The Wardrobe Theatre

We’ve paired our world-class service and deep knowledge of the live events sector with Adyen’s industry-leading software protections. By leveraging machine learning, our approach empowers you to encourage legitimate transactions and stay ahead of attacks without needing to be hands-on.

And if incidents do occur, we’re on hand to guide you through your options, offer expert advice, and help you move forward with confidence.

Already using Spektrix?

If you started using Spektrix after 2024, you likely already have Spektrix Payments as your payments provider. If you don’t, we’d be glad to walk you through the value it brings for fraud protection and beyond.